SUBJUGATING THE MIDDLE EAST: INTEGRATION INTO THE NEW WORLD ORDER

This book is part of a two-volume work seeking to demystify the
nature and causes of the Arab 'revolutions' (the 'Arab Spring'). It
is shown that the aim of the transnational elite, which informally
administers globalization, has always been the same in all these
'revolutions', including the attempted color revolution in Iran in
2009. That aim is to secure the full integration of all Arab regimes
and Iran into the New World Order (NWO). This Order was established
following the collapse of the Soviet block and the parallel
universalization through neoliberal globalization of the
internationalized market economy and its political complement,
representative 'democracy'.

Globalization is not only economic. It is also
political. First, because as nation-states lose their economic
sovereignty they wither away; second, because globalization implies a
compatible type of political structure that facilitates it. As
representative 'democracy' has proven much more effective than the usual
authoritarian regimes in imposing the huge concentration of economic
power, incomes and wealth that globalization brings, a Muslim
Brotherhood-based 'democratization' has been initially selected by local
and foreign elites to achieve the Arab world's full integration into the
NWO.

Finally, globalization also has an ideological
dimension that justifies the need for the drastic restriction of
national sovereignty, under the pretext of protecting human rights and
the implied new doctrine of 'Responsibility to Protect'.

However, an important element of the Arab Spring is
that, although the aim of the transnational elite has been the same
everywhere, they have targeted the various countries by different means,
which are variations of the Western-instigated color 'revolutions' in
Eastern Europe.

Broadly, we may distinguish between two main forms of
integration into the NWO:

First, integration through a form of fake
democratization (Vol. 1). This refers to the client regimes in Tunisia
and Egypt, in which the transnational elite provided the trigger for
uprisings which were 'waiting to happen' as well as the very efficient
internet infrastructures to back them up. Furthermore, it was the same
elite that helped 'guide' these uprisings through NGOs and other
controlled organizations, so that these 'revolutions' would not in any
way threaten their aims. These were to replace local political elites
with personnel who would be in a better position, through their
'democratic' credentials, to achieve the full integration of these
countries into the NWO. At the same time, they would cooperate in
creating the preconditions for the pre-planned armed insurrections in
Libya and Syria. Iran is a case of its own, as it is not an Arab nation
and the Western campaign to get rid of the rogue Islamic regime, which
was established following the 1979 national liberation uprising, began
almost immediately afterwards. The latest phase in the process of regime
change began in 2009 with an attempted color revolution, which was
particularly important with respect to the Arab Spring as, in fact, it
functioned as its precursor.

Second, integration through engineered insurrections
(Vol. 2). These were launched against the non-client regimes in Libya
and Syria and were, in fact, pre-planned armed insurrections
masquerading as popular uprisings. In both Libya and Syria, the
engineered armed insurrections were to be complemented by Western
military intervention for regime change. Another reason the
demystification of the Arab Spring is particularly important, is that
its nature has been completely distorted by an unprecedented
manipulation of world public opinion. Last but not least, the
international liberal 'Left' actually supported the campaigns for regime
change by endorsing the so-called 'revolutionaries' participating in the
Arab Spring.

Author

Takis
Fotopoulos is a political philosopher and economist who founded the
inclusive democracy movement. He is noted for his synthesis of the
classical democracy with the libertarian socialism and the radical
currents in the new social movements. He is the editor of The
International Journal of Inclusive Democracy (which succeeded Democracy
& Nature). He is also a columnist for the Athens Daily Eleftherotypia.
He was previously (1969 1989) Senior Lecturer in Economics at the
University of North London. He moved to London in 1966 for postgraduate
study at the London School of Economics, on a scholarship from Athens
University, after earning degrees in Economics & Political Science, as
well as in Law from the University of Athens. He was a student
syndicalist and activist in Athens and then a political activist in
London, taking an active part in the 1968 student movement in London, as
well as in organisations of the revolutionary Greek Left during the
struggle against the military junta in Greece (1967-74).

He is the
author of Towards An Inclusive Democracy (London & New York: Cassell,
1997) in which the foundations of the inclusive democracy project were
set, which has been translated into French, German, Spanish, Italian,
Greek and Chinese and of the book The Multidimensional Crisis and
Inclusive Democracy, published by the International Journal of Inclusive
Democracy (2005). His last book in English is The Pink Revolution in
Iran and the Left, published by the International Journal of Inclusive
Democracy, (2009). He has also contributed to several books in English,
Italian, Chinese, Polish and Greek. His latest contributions in English
include: 'Systemic Aspects of Academic Repression in the New World
Order' in 'Academic Repression: Reflections from the Academic Industrial
Complex' ed. by A.J. Nocella, Steven Best, Peter McLaren (AK Press,
Oakland, CA & Edinburgh, 2010); 'From (mis)education to Paedeia' in
'Critical Pedagogy in the new dark ages: challenges and possibilities',
ed by Maria Nikolakaki (Peter Lang Publishing, 2012); 'Hardt & Negri's
Empire: A new Communist Manifesto or a reformist Welcome to Neoliberal
Globalization?', in Karl Marx, The Communist
Manifesto, ed by Frederic L. Bender (Second
revised edition), (W.W. Norton & Co: New York, 2013). He is also the
author of over 15 books in Greek on development; the Gulf War; the
neo-liberal consensus; the New World Order; the drug culture; the New
Order in the Balkans; the new irrationalism; globalisation and the Left;
the war against terrorism ; Chomsky's capitalism and Albert's
metacapitalism; the present multi-dimensional crisis; Inclusive
Democracy: 10 years; The present capitalist crisis and the antisystemic
movement. His latest book in Greek is 'Greece as a protectorate of the
transnational elite: The need for an immediate exit from the EU and for
a self-reliant economy' (Athens: Gordios, November 2010). He is also the
author of over 1,000 articles in British, American and Greek theoretical
journals, magazines and newspapers, several of which have been
translated into over twenty languages. (see
http://www.inclusivedemocracy.org/fotopoulos)